Description

Feline anaesthesia requires careful planning and management, they have many differences to other mammal species in how they metabolise drugs and cope with procedures such as intubation. They are known to have a higher anaesthetic mortality rate than dogs and therefore need close monitoring throughout.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the specific anaesthetic risks for cats
• Understand how to plan a feline anaesthetic
• Know how to correctly intubate a cat
• Know how to manage laryngospasm
• Be able to plan a multimodal analgesia protocol for a cat
• Understand how to monitor anaesthetic recovery in a cat